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Student News for Horizon Honors Secondary School

The Horizon Sun

Student News for Horizon Honors Secondary School

The Horizon Sun

Student News for Horizon Honors Secondary School

The Horizon Sun

2025-2026 Staff

Leila Karawi
Columnist

Leila Karawi

Leila Karawi is a freshman in her first year at Horizon Honors. Karawi has one younger brother. She enjoys playing volleyball, basketball, painting, playing the piano, watching movies, going on sunset walks,  and hanging out...

Savannah Williams
Columnist

Savannah Williams

Savannah Williams is in eighth grade attending Horizon Honors. Williams is in her first year of journalism as a columnist. Williams plays basketball currently, but danced for 12 years before that. Dance was her first love, but s...

Zarina Zawacki
Columnist

Zarina Zawacki

Zarina Zawacki is an eighth grader at Horizon Honors in her first year of journalism. Outside of school, she plays viola for the Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestra. Zawacki also enjoys music, art, sewing, and reading. She enjoys...

Neelahn Johnston
Columnist

Neelahn Johnston

Neelahn Johnston is currently in eighth grade at Horizon Honors. Johnston has been attending Horizon Honors since kindergarten. Johnston’s interests include watching American football. He is involved in junior football leagues and ...

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Columnist

Adia Bruyere

Adia Bruyere is currently in her first year at Horizon Honors, as a freshman and she enjoys playing basketball, reading, and playing flag football. Whenever she gets the chance, she goes to the park and plays basketball, whet...

Asher Richardson
Columnist

Asher Richardson

Asher D. Richardson is an eighth grader at Horizon Honors and has been attending the school for nine years. This is his first year in journalism as a columnist for The Horizon Sun. His hobbies include gaming, editing videos and pic...

Liam Gray
Columnist

Liam Gray

Liam Gray is an eighth grader at Horizon Honors. He is also a columnist in his first year in journalism. Gray enjoys playing video games, hanging out with his friends, and watching TV. He is a part of the National Junior Honors S...

Aria Shaw
Columnist

Aria Shaw

Aria Shaw is a seventh grader in her second year at Horizon Honors and first year in journalism. Shaw enjoys playing basketball, drawing, and hanging out with her family and friends. Shaw's favorite subject in school is English an...

Parker Brandt
Columnist

Parker Brandt

Parker Brandt is a 13-year-old eighth grader at Horizon Honors. He is entering his first year in journalism. Brandt likes to compete in competitive gymnastics and trains all year round. He has lots of hobbies, including playing t...

Bennett Lyons
Columnist

Bennett Lyons

Bennett Lyons is a 12-year-old who is currently in Seventh grade. This is Lyons’ First year of journalism as a columnist for The Horizon Sun. He has been at Horizon Honors since kindergarten. Some of his hobbies include drawing, g...

Gizelle Francisco
Columnist

Gizelle Francisco

Gizelle Francisco is an eighth grader attending her second year at Horizon Honors. This is her first year writing as a columnist for The Horizon Sun. Francisco enjoys school activities and is a part of the middle school Student...

Mateo Olmos
Columnist

Mateo Olmos

Mateo Olmos is a 15-year-old sophomore at Horizon Honors. This is his fourth year in journalism as a columnist. Olmos enjoys writing articles about animals, natural disasters, and crime. Outside of school, Olmos likes to read ...

Jamil Jasper
Columnist

Jamil Jasper

Jamil Jasper is a 14-year-old columnist for The Horizon Sun and is in his second year in journalism. Jasper is a freshman at Horizon Honors and has been attending the school for ten years. His hobbies include gaming, drawing,...

Matthew Greco
Columnist

Matthew Greco

Matthew Greco is a 15-year-old at Horizon Honors. This is his sixth year attending the school and fourth year in journalism. Greco is involved with many extracurricular activities around school, including Speech and Debate, Gr...

Anniston Miller
Columnist

Anniston Miller

Anniston Miller is a 14-year-old who is currently in eighth grade. This is Miller’s second year in journalism as a columnist for The Horizon Sun. Miller has one brother named Joey Miller. Miller and her brother love playing ga...

Ayana Bipin
Columnist

Ayana Bipin

Ayana Bipin is a freshman in high school. She is starting her tenth year at Horizon Honors and  her first year of journalism. Bipin wants to become an author and psychology researcher when she’s older. English is Bipin’s fav...

Logan Safranek
Editor of Politics

Logan Safranek

Logan Safranek is a senior at Horizon Honors. This year will be her second year in journalism and first year as an editor for The Horizon Sun. Safranek has loved to write for as long as she can remember, and writing for the Horizon...

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Manager and Editor of Student Opinions

Kate Henning

Kate Henning is a senior at Horizon Honors and has been in journalism for all of four years of her high school career, this being her second as an editor for The Horizon Sun. She is the youngest of four, around 20 years apart...

Leo Yee
Editor of Politics & Student Opinion

Leo Yee

Leo Yee is a junior at Horizon Honors in their first year as an editor for The Horizon Sun and second year of journalism. Yee has a passion for informing others about historical and contemporary issues which they enjoy doing through essays and ...

Jameson Kowalski
Editor in Chief

Jameson Kowalski

Jameson Kowalski is a sophomore in his sixteenth year at Horizon Honors. Kowalski started at Horizon in staff child care at six weeks old. He will be going into his fourth year in journalism class, and his second as an editor. Th...

Prerna Singla
Editor in Chief

Prerna Singla

Prerna Singla is a junior in her second year of journalism, and her first year as an editor for The Horizon Sun. Outside of school, she enjoys crafting, with her favorite crafts being sewing and painting. Singla also likes to spe...

Siddharth Magadala
Editor of Sports

Siddharth Magadala

Siddharth Magadala is a 15-year-old sophomore attending his third year at Horizon Honors. This is Magadala’s second year in journalism, and his first as an editor for The Horizon Sun. Magadala’s hobbies include playing flag football...

Eli Geist
Editor of Campus Life

Eli Geist

Eli Geist is a 14-year-old freshman at Horizon Honors, entering his third year in journalism and second year as an editor for The Horizon Sun. In his free time, Geist likes to draw and play the piano, as well as talk with his frien...